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Barsby, Tina. "Olive Schreiner : women, nature, culture." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/20138.
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Bibliography: pages 102-112.<br>This dissertation locates Olive Schreiner as a nineteenth-century colonial woman writer who challenges the traditional association of men with culture, and women with nature. In Schreiner's writing the oppression of women is situated within an understanding of the social construction of "woman" as closer to nature than man. Through the lives of her central female characters, Schreiner shows how this definition of "woman" works to position women as "other" to culture, both preventing their access to public power and marginalising their fully social activities within culture. Schreiner attempts to displace definitions of culture constituted through a system of binary oppositions which inevitably privilege masculinity as opposed to femininity by redefining culture in three distinct ways. The patriarchal conception culture as the sole preserve of men is rejected in Schreiner's demands for women's educational and legal equality, and for their right to economic independence. Conventional notions of culture are equally refused in Schreiner's stress on women's traditional domestic labour as essential to the very emergence and continuation of culture. Finally, the deconstruction of sexual difference as a fixed immutable category within Schreiner's writing exposes the definition of "woman" as socially constructed and legitimated. The contradictions and tensions within and between these demands illustrate the limits of Schreiner's feminist and socialist politics, and point to how her writing both challenges and articulates aspects of dominant nineteenth-century ideology. At the same time, such contradictions were vitally important in motivating Schreiner's on-going attempt to change radically the position of women within culture. Moreover, the co-existence of apparently conflicting demands within Schreiner's redefinition of culture suggests the terms of a resolution of the perennial problem within feminist discourse around competing claims for women's equality or for a recognition of their difference.
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Dennis, Jane A. "Dilemmas of audience and alienation in the fiction of Olive Schreiner." Thesis, Bangor University, 1997. https://research.bangor.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/dilemmas-of-audience-and-alienation-in-the-fiction-of-olive-schreiner(c4b158d3-bc18-4e4c-8396-aaf191012117).html.
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Quatro, Jamie Jacqueline. "Postcolonial Parodies of the Creation Story in Olive Schreiner and Wilson Harris." W&M ScholarWorks, 1999. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626223.
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Shea, Daniel Patrick. "Going into labor : production and reproduction in fin de siècle British literature /." view abstract or download file of text, 2006. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1288655951&sid=3&Fmt=2&clientId=11238&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2006.<br>Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 280-290). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.
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Young-Studer, Noémie. "La chanson d'Yde et Olive: A Parable of a Medieval Self-Made Man." PDXScholar, 2003. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/4668.
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La chanson d'Yde et Olive, an early fourteenth-century epic poem from the Picard region, exemplifies the medieval custom of text renewal that seeks to adapt pagan materials to fit Christian doctrine. Largely based on the plot of the Ovidian fable Iphis and Ianthe from The Metamorphoses, its main character Yde undergoes a metaphorical transformation from a woman into a man. Moreover, much like the Ovide moralisé, a Christianized adaptation of the Latin original, Yde et Olive's message can be understood as a Christian parable for the purging of the sinful soul. To set up the poem's didactic message, the poet carefully infuses the story with contemporary social concerns, such as the theme of incest and gender disruption, both potentially offensive forces to the medieval social structure. In the backdrop of these threats to society, the heroine's overcoming of her struggles becomes all the more meaningful, leading to a clear moral message to the reader. While being a hybrid in genre and structure, the poem shows many borrowings from Christian hagiography, especially from the later, more romance-influenced versions of the Vitae of female transvestite saints. In these narratives, the heroine's spiritual development is typically portrayed in terms of "becoming male," which can also be understood as an erasure of sexual difference to approach God in a Neoplatonic sense. Moreover, the development of Yde's own hybrid state leading to the climax of revealing her new sex exemplifies medieval literary criticism, elaborating on the central theme of uncovering truth by exposing the hidden gem beneath the rough surface.
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Snyman, Vicki. "Unfallen women : negotiations of alternative feminine identities in selected writings by Olive Schreiner." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002257.
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This study constitutes an inquiry into how Olive Schreiner‟s peripheral position as a colonial woman writer enabled her rewriting of feminine identity, specifically her subversion of Victorian feminine stereotypes. I focus particular attention on three novels: The Story of an African Farm (1890), and the posthumously published From Man to Man (1926) and Undine (1929). I employ a feminist literary approach to examine how Schreiner‟s hybrid identity as a British South African enabled her revisioning of femininity. If Schreiner is situated within the context of her time, it can be demonstrated that her negotiations of feminine identity are influenced by her dual intellectual and cultural heritage. On the one hand, she can be situated within a British tradition of women‟s writing – in particular, the New Woman fiction which emerged in the late nineteenth century. On the other hand, she can be situated within a nascent South African literary tradition – and demonstrates prototypically post-colonial concerns. Schreiner‟s writing style develops out of her colonial heritage and her experiences as a woman living in a patriarchal society. The resultant voice subverts the narrative traditions of the metropolitan novel in an attempt to articulate an alternative view of femininity. I examine in detail how Schreiner undermines and subverts Victorian stereotypes, and focus particular attention on the „fallen woman‟ and the „mother-figure‟. She attempts to challenge conventional Victorian conceptions of femininity by erasing the binary between the „angel‟ and the „whore‟ in order to create a New Woman. In Undine and The Story of an African Farm the full realisation of this New Woman is deferred, since both protagonists die, but From Man to Man is more nuanced, particularly in its emphasis on economic empowerment for women. Schreiner also destabilises traditional notions of motherhood, in order to offer glimpses of an alternative maternal role. It is my contention that, in her depiction of mother-figures and (un)fallen women, Schreiner challenges stock Victorian notions of femininity and, in the process, creates a space in which new possibilities for women can be imagined and negotiated.
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Barends, Heidi. "Race, gender and empire: transnational and transracial feminism in the first novels of Pauline Hopkins and Olive Schreiner." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/13663.
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Includes bibliography.<br>White South African author Olive Schreiner (1855-1920) and African American author Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins (1859-1930) are well-known and celebrated literary figures in their own right, but are seldom read side by side. Furthermore, these authors and their works are traditionally placed on different spectrums of feminist literary genealogies despite writing during a similar time-frame and sharing converging feminist agendas. This thesis analyses The Story of an African Farm (1883), Schreiner’s first completed novel, alongside Hopkins’ first full-length novel, the romance Contending Forces: A Romance Illustrative of Negro Life North and South (1900). Individually, these novels and their authors do radical work in liberating their female characters from the patriarchal and racial oppression prevalent in each context. This thesis argues that reading the two in tandem offers unique insight into a specifically transnational and transracial feminist consciousness emerging at the turn of the nineteenth century. Identifying multiple links between the novels’ feminist concerns and their intersecting negotiations with race and empire, this comparative literary study establishes temporal, spatial and conceptual links between the two works, arguing that these links transcend both the space and race of their novels’ local contexts in order to suggest a definitive transnational and transracial feminist awareness. Such a reading moreover disrupts traditional genealogies of western feminism, urging scholars to look beyond the narrow scope of feminist “waves” and schools in order to detect nuances, convergences and relationships between texts which such genealogies disregard.
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Williams, Emily Allen. "Tropical Paradise Lost and Regained: The poetic protest and prophecy of Edward Brathwaite, Claire Harris, Olive Senior, and David Dabydeen." DigitalCommons@Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center, 1997. http://digitalcommons.auctr.edu/dissertations/476.
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This dissertation examines the poetry of four Caribbean poets: Edward Brathwaite, Claire Harris, Olive Senior, and David Dabydeen. A presentation of the background issues which shape their voices of protest and prophecy, stemming from the colonization of the Caribbean region, governs the discussion. While the African ancestry of the poets Brathwaite, Harris, and Senior provides the cohesion of this critical analysis, Dabydeen, of East Indian ancestry, fits within the matrix of this analysis due to the thematic centering of his poetry on the issues of dislocation and dispossession surrounding the colonization of the Caribbean region. This analysis is organized into six chapters. Chapter One, the introduction, presents a historical overview ofthe Caribbean region and the scope of this dissertation. Chapters Two through Five are devoted to an analysis of selected works of each poet. Finally, Chapter Six synthesizes the powerful notes of protest and prophecy sounded by each of these poets in their quest for a home which empowers and embraces its people, a Paradise Regained.
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au, Casella2@westnet com, and Antonio Casella. "An Olive Branch for Sante (A novel) ; and The Italian Diaspora in Australia and Representations of Italy and Italians in Australian Narrative." Murdoch University, 2006. http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au/adt/browse/view/adt-MU20070427.120048.
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The Italian Diaspora in Australia and Representations of Italy and Italians in Australian Narrative ( Research thesis)
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An Olive Branch for Sante (A novel)
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In the Introduction of my research titled: Diaspora: A Theoretical Review, I look at the evolution of diasporic Studies and how the great movements of people that have occurred in the past one hundred and fifty years have altered our perception of what is undoubtedly a global phenomenon.
In Chapter One, which I have titled: In Search of an Italian Diaspora in Australia, I consider the kinds of socio-cultural nuclei that have evolved among the Italian population of Australia, out of the mass migration which occurred largely in the post war years. I discuss Italian migration as a whole, the historical and political conditions which brought about mass migration and the subsequent dispersion of Italian nationals, their regrouping into various clusters and how these fit into the patchwork that is the contemporary Australian society. Finally I review the conditions in the host country which facilitated or hindered particular socio-cultural formations and how these may differ from those occurring in other countries
Chapter Two deals with, The Narrative of Non-Italian Writers. The chapter looks at the images and myths of Italy perpetrated in the literature written by English-speaking authors over the centuries. I begin with the legacy left by British writers such as E.M. Forster, then move on to Australian writers of non-Italian background, such as Judah Waten, Nino Culotta (John O' Grady) and Helen Garner. In Chapter Three: Italo-Australian Writers, I focus on two writers: Venero Armanno and Melina Marchetta, both born in Australia of Italian parents. This section ties in with the earlier discourse on the continuity of the Italian Diaspora in Australia, into the second and subsequent generations.
In Chapter Four, titled: Literature of Nostalgia: The Long Journey, I will reflect upon my own journey as a writer, beginning with my earlier work, including the short stories and the plays, and concluding with a close look at the present novel, which is a companion piece to the research.
The novel complements the research in that it deals with the eternal issues of migration: displacement, change and identity. The protagonists are two young people: Ira-Jane and Sante. The first is not a migrant, but she is touched by migration, insofar as an old Italian couple play grandparents to her, in the early years of her life. When they return to Sicily the child is left with her neglectful and unstable mother. At age twenty-four Ira-Jane goes to Sicily on an assignment, and there she tries to get in touch with her 'grandparents'. She meets up with eighteen-year-old Sante who turns out to be her half brother. The novel's structure juxtaposes two countries, two cultures, two way of looking at the world. It sets up a series of contrasts: the old society and the new, past and present, tradition and innovation, stability and change, repression and freedom. The end of the novel proposes a symbolic bridging between two countries, which are similar in some ways, very different in others. It offers not a solution but a different approach to the eternal dilemma of people living in a diaspora, inhabiting an indefinite space between two countries and for whom home will always be somewhere else.
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Ewing, Maureen Colleen. "South African women's literature and the ecofeminist perspective." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1007808.
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A social-constructionist ecofeminist perspective argues that patriarchal society separates the human (or culture) from nature, which causes a false assumption that humanity possesses the right, as a superior species, to dominate nature. This perspective integrates the domination of nature with social conflicts, including but not limited to racial discrimination, gender oppression, and class hierarchies. Understanding how these various forms of oppression interrelate forms the main goal of an ecofeminist perspective. Since the nature-culture, female-male, and whitenonwhite conflicts resonate and interlock throughout South Africa's history, socialconstructionist ecofeminism is an indispensable perspective for analysing South African literature. This thesis takes a social-constructionist ecofeminist approach and applies it to four women authors that write about South African society between the years 1860-1900. This thesis includes the following authors and their works: Olive Schreiner (1855-1920) and two of her novels, The Story of an African Farm (1883) and From Man to Man (published posthumously in 1927); Pauline Smith (1882-1959) and her novel The Beadle (1926); Dalene Matthee (1938- ) and three of her novels, Circles in a Forest (1984), Fiela's Child (1986), and The Mulberry Forest (1987); and Marguerite Poland (1950- ) and one of her novels, Shades (1993). This thesis investigates two women from the time period (Schreiner and Smith) and two women from a late twentieth century perspective (Matthee and Poland) and compares how they depict the natural environment, how they construct gender, and how they interpret class and race power struggles. This thesis concludes that the social-constructionist perspective offers unique insights into these four authors. Schreiner's novels reveal her concerns about gender and racial conflicts in South Africa and her understanding of the nature-culture dichotomy as sustained by Social Darwinism. Smith offers insights into the complex power structures in a rural Afrikaans society that keep women and nonwhite races silent. Matthee writes nature as an active participant in her novels; the social and ecological conflicts emphasise the transformation of the Knysna area. Poland explores the racial tensions, gender conflicts, and environmental concerns that preceded the South African War. Schreiner, Smith, Matthee, and Poland make up a small cross-section of South African literature, but they provide a basis for further discussing the ecofeminist perspective within a South African context.<br>KMBT_363<br>Adobe Acrobat 9.54 Paper Capture Plug-in
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Gomes, Raquel Gryszczenko Alves 1983. "Oliver Schreiner, literatura e a construção da nação sul-africana, 1880-1902." [s.n.], 2010. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/279302.
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Previous issue date: 2010<br>Resumo: Olive Emilie Albertina Schreiner (1855-1920), literata sul-africana de origem anglófona, é hoje lembrada essencialmente por sua contribuição para o campo dos estudos de gênero e sexualidade, bem como por seu romance de estréia - The Story of an African Farm, publicado em 1883. Centramos nossa análise no período de expansão econômico-territorial sul-africana - aqui delimitado entre os anos 1880 e 1902 - para apreender o diálogo da escrita de Schreiner com os impactos da política imperialista britânica nas relações entre ingleses e bôeres; ingleses e nativos e nativos e bôeres. É também neste período que a literata começa a articular sua idéia de nação sul-africana e assume uma política de combate à exploração do nativo pelo sistema capitalista, além de estruturar um discurso de apoio ao bôer. Para tanto, à leitura de The Story of an African Farm associamos também o estudo de obras que receberam até então pouco destaque: Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland (1897) e Thoughts on South Africa (1923*).<br>Abstract: Olive Emilie Albertina Schreiner (1855-1920), South African writer of anglophone origin, is nowadays remembered primarily for her contribution to the field of gender and sexuality studies, as well as for her debut novel, The Story of an African Farm (1883). Focusing our analysis on the economic expansion of South African territory - period delimited here between years 1880-1902 - we intend to explore the dialog of her writings with the impacts of British imperialist policy in the relations between British and the Boers, British and natives and between natives and Boers. It is also during this period that the literate begins to articulate her idea of a South African nation and engages herself in a policy to combat the exploitation of the native by the capitalist system, besides articulating a speech in support of the Boer cause. Therefore, to the reading of The Story of an African Farm we also associated the study of some works that received little attention so far: Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland (1897) and Thoughts on South Africa (1923*).<br>Mestrado<br>Historia Social<br>Mestre em História
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Dyson, Mandy. "Empire girls : white female protagonists, the Bildungsroman and challenges to narrative /." Title page, table of contents and abstract only, 1998. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phd998.pdf.
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Kortsch, Christine Bayles. "Women's handiwork dress culture, literacy, and social activism in British women's fiction, 1883--1900 (South Africa, Olive Schreiner, Ella Hepworth, Sarah Grand, Gertrude Dix, Margaret Oliphant) /." Access to citation, abstract and download form provided by ProQuest Information and Learning Company; downloadable PDF file 3.85 Mb., 259 p, 2006. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3221129.
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Parsons, Elizabeth, and mikewood@deakin edu au. "Poetry and silence: a sequence of disappearances." Deakin University. School of Literary and Communication Studies, 2001. http://tux.lib.deakin.edu.au./adt-VDU/public/adt-VDU20050915.133358.
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Tracy, Hannah R. "Willing progress: The literary Lamarckism of Olive Schreiner, George Bernard Shaw, and William Butler Yeats." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/10596.
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ix, 288 p. A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number.<br>While the impact of Darwin's theory of evolution on Victorian and modernist literature has been well-documented, very little critical attention has been paid to the influence of Lamarckian evolutionary theory on literary portrayals of human progress during this same period. Lamarck's theory of inherited acquired characteristics provided an attractive alternative to the mechanism and materialism of Darwin's theory of natural selection for many writers in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, particularly those who refused to relinquish the role of the individual will in the evolutionary process. Lamarckian rhetoric permeated an ideologically diverse range of discourses related to progress, including reproduction, degeneration, race, class, eugenics, education, and even art. By analyzing the literary texts of Olive Schreiner, G.B. Shaw, and W.B. Yeats alongside their polemical writing, I demonstrate how Lamarckism inflected these writers' perceptions of the mechanism of human evolution and their ideas about human progress, and I argue that their work helped to sustain Lamarck's cultural influence beyond his scientific relevance.
In the dissertation's introduction, I place the work of these three writers in the context of the Neo-Darwinian and Neo-Lamarckian evolutionary debates in order to establish the scientific credibility and cultural attractiveness of Lamarckism during this period. Chapter II argues that Schreiner creates her own evolutionary theory that rejects the cold, competitive materialism inherent in Darwinism and builds upon Lamarck's mechanism, modifying Lamarckism to include a uniquely feminist emphasis on the importance of community, motherhood, and self-sacrifice for the betterment of the human race. In Chapter III, I demonstrate that Shaw's "metabiological" religion of Creative Evolution, as portrayed in Man and Superman and Back to Methuselah , is not simply Bergsonian vitalism repackaged as a Neo-Lamarckian evolutionary theory but, rather, a uniquely Shavian theory of human progress that combines religious, philosophical, and political elements and is thoroughly steeped in contemporary evolutionary science. Finally, Chapter IV examines the interplay between Yeats's aesthetics and his anxieties about class in both his poetry and his 1939 essay collection On the Boiler to show how Lamarckian modes of thought inflected his understanding of degeneration and reproduction and eventually led him to embrace eugenics.<br>Committee in charge: Paul Peppis, Chairperson, English;
Mark Quigley, Member, English;
Paul Farber, Member, Not from U of O;
Richard Stein, Member, English;
John McCole, Outside Member, History
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Zelenenkaya, Ekaterina. "The Projector Principle as a Means of Portraying the Cultural through the Personal in Olive Senior's Summer Lightning and Other Stories." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Avdelningen för språk och kultur, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-102466.
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The essay represents the projector principle, on which, as the essay’s author believes, the narration of The Summer Lightning and Other Stories by Olive Senior is based. The projector principle illustrates the idea that little details and images in the text serve big purposes, for example, reflect the emotional state of the characters or how the characters construct their identity. The literary analysis of the present essay aims at exploring a complicated identity construction in the context of Jamaica with its half-lost indigenous and half-remained colonial legacies through the identity construction of adolescent Jamaican protagonists of the short stories.
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Smit, Susanna Johanna. ""Placing" the farm novel : space and place in female identity formation in Olive Schreiner's The story of an African farm and J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace / S.J. Smit." Thesis, North-West University, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/873.
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Porche, Amy S. "The Fashioning of Fanny Fern: A Study of Sara Willis Parton's Early Career, 1851-1854." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2010. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/english_diss/58.
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The purpose of this study is to trace how Sara Willis Parton achieved unprecedented literary celebrity status as Fanny Fern during the first three years of her professional career, 1851-1853. While most critics point to her famously lucrative contract with the most popular newspaper of the 1850s, the New York Ledger, in 1854 as the beginning of her fame, I argue that she had already fully achieved that fame and had done so by writing for small Boston newspapers and publishing a highly successful collection of her articles by 1853. Further, Fern was able to achieve such a high level of success because of a keen business sense, intuitive marketing savvy, an ability to promote herself, an original writing style, and a creative use of personas. My study provides an important addition to Fern scholarship by addressing the largely overlooked early years of her writing career. To date, scholars either make no mention of her first three years or do so only to demonstrate the point that Fern achieved notable success when she signed a contract for one hundred dollars a column with Robert Bonner, publisher and editor of the New York Ledger. Prior to that contract, Fern worked as a freelance writer for the Boston Olive Branch and the Boston True Flag, earning less than five dollars for each sketch she submitted. The critical assumption has been that her initial work prepared her for the fame she would achieve writing for Bonner, but in fact Bonner would not have hired her had she not already achieved significant fame, for Bonner hired only highly celebrated writers. My study explores how Fanny Fern became a famous writer. When she began writing, Fern wrote under a number of previously unknown pseudonyms for local newspapers, but within three years her distinctive style, rhetorical skill, and iconoclastic persona had made ―Fanny Fern a household name. Fern‘s unique ability to engage a popular audience, I would argue, is the principal difference between Fern and other famous contemporary women writers.
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Icleanu, Constantin Cristian. "The Functions of Guilt and Shame in Juan José Millás' El mundo and My Olive-Green Fridge and I: The Posthuman Identity in El púgil." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2011. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/2476.
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In his celebrated 2007 novel El mundo, Juan José Millás tells the story of the development of Juanjo, a simulacrum of himself, and describes a series of negative developments that the protagonist faces in his childhood. While much has been written about Millás and the “testimonial realism” of his literary generation, little has been written about the psychological factors that influence his characters. In this paper I analyze Juanjo's development as understood from the gradation of guilt to shame, depression, and later suicidal thoughts. Because Juanjo is not able to find an appropriate mechanism of release for his guilt, he spirals into an ever-increasing psychological distress. Thus, his actions do not become an escape per se from the oppressive forces in Spain; but rather, they are mechanisms of delay caused by the subconscious effects of living under Franco's Spain during the 1950s.
Mike Wilson-Reginato's first novel El púgil, published in 2007, mixes intertextual references to music, film, and literature to craft a space for the posthuman identity. The two protagonists of El púgil—Art and his olive-green refrigerator, Hal—combine in a new cyborg-like formation. Unlike the cyborg envisioned by Donna Haraway in “A Cyborg Manifesto,” the mechanical-biological union never takes place at the corporeal level, but their union occurs in a psychological dimension within Art's hallucination. To describe the union of Art and Hal, I use Jacques Lacan's concept of the mirror stage to explain Art's adoption of a perceived superior identity and Jean Baudrillard's study of simulacra to show how this adopted identity is an imagined simulacrum. Thus, the combined image of the two characters creates a cyborg identity that erases the distance between man and machine.
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Heidenreich, Viviane D'Avila. "Olive Schreiner." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UFSC, 2016. https://repositorio.ufsc.br/xmlui/handle/123456789/168162.
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Previous issue date: 2016<br>Abstract : This dissertation examines, from a postcolonial perspective, the work of Olive Schreiner, a South African feminist and socialist writer and social theorist. Schreiner lived at the turn of the nineteenth century, a period when the New Imperialism was at its height, and witnessed some of the most relevant events in South African history. Emotionally divided by a double identification with both England, her mother?s land, and South Africa, the land where she was born, her bi-national sense of identity did not prevent her from becoming one of the most active voices against British imperialist policies in South Africa. The aim of my research is to bring to light the political side of Olive Schreiner, exploring some of her fictional and theoretical works, as well as her personal letters, to trace mainly her anti-imperialist and anti-racist ideas. In doing so, I will show that Schreiner?s discourse of resistance somehow advanced some of the issues developed later by postcolonial critics and theorists.<br><br>A presente tese examina, sob uma perspectiva pós-colonial, a obra de Olive Schreiner, uma escritora feminista e socialista e teórica social sul-africana. Schreiner viveu na virada do século dezenove, período em que o Novo Imperialismo estava no seu auge, e testemunhou alguns dos eventos mais relevantes da história da África do Sul. Dividida afetivamente entre a Inglaterra, terra de sua mãe, e a África, lugar onde nasceu e cresceu, seu senso de identidade binacional não a impediu de tornar-se uma das vozes mais ativas contra o imperialismo britânico na África. O objetivo da minha pesquisa é trazer à tona o lado político de Olive Schreiner, explorando algumas de suas obras, ficcionais e teóricas, assim como suas cartas pessoais, em busca principalmente de suas ideias anti-imperialistas e antirracistas. Com essa análise pretendo mostrar que o discurso de resistência de Schreiner, de algum modo, antecipou alguns dos conceitos explorados pela teoria pós-colonial.
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Hepp, Oliver [Verfasser]. "Der bekannte Fremde / Oliver Hepp." Frankfurt : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2016. http://d-nb.info/1099858348/34.
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Lin, Yu-hsien [Verfasser], and Oliver [Akademischer Betreuer] Jahraus. "Ästhetik der Existenz im Diskurs der Literatur : Literatur als Medium der Selbsttechniken / Yu-hsien Lin. Betreuer: Oliver Jahraus." München : Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, 2014. http://d-nb.info/108162891X/34.
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Segerstedt, Elin. "Identitet och berättande : i Oline Stigs Den andra himlen." Thesis, Södertörn University College, School of Gender, Culture and History, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-1498.
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<p>This essay investigates how the author Oline Stig creates identities for her main characters in three short stories; Midsommar, Polly Maggoo and Den längsta dagen from the collection Den andra himlen (2007).</p><p>My investigation is based on concepts chosen from psychology and narratology: First, Jonas Stier’s definition of human identity. In his definition he focuses on a person’s social context. He also considers identity formation as an ongoing, ever- changing process. Second, Gerard Génette’s and Maria Nikolajeva’s concepts concerning focalization and the perspective and voice of narration.</p><p>My analysis tries to answer the question if the perspective of narration has any effect on the readers understanding for the characters’ processes of identity. I have found that other aspects than the perspectives of narration are more important in portraying a fictional character in these short stories. For example: in one of the stories - Polly Maggoo – narration is part of the identity forming process: the main character is influenced by and portrayed via the stories told by a friend, and later, via the stories she tells another friend about herself.</p><p>The essay also contains a short presentation of Oline Stig and gives a view of the development of the short story-genre in the 1900`s.</p>
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Heidenreich, Viviane D'Avila. "Social reform in the fiction of Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Olive Schreiner." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UFSC, 1992. https://repositorio.ufsc.br/xmlui/handle/123456789/157728.
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Previous issue date: 1992<br>Uma das contribuições da crítica feminista tem sido a redescoberta de escritoras que foram por alguma razão esquecidas ou subestimadas nos meios intelectuais e literários. A presente dissertação aborda duas dessas mulheres, (Charlotte Perkins Gilman e Olive Schreiner). Há um século atrás estavam no auge de suas atividades como ativistas sociais, conferencistas, defensoras do movimento de mulheres e escritoras. Nesta dissertação busco resgatar a importância de Gilman e Schreiner durante a época em que viveram discutindo algumas das idéias desenvolvidas nas suas mais influentes obras teóricas.
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Oscarsson, Sanna. "Monks & Oliver: Two Sides of the Same Coin in Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-67769.
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Oliver Twist is a novel loved by many, read by more. It is a classic novel by Charles Dickens, portraying the life and hardships of a young boy named Oliver Twist, who was born in a work house. Oliver is bright and righteous, the exact opposite of his brother Edward “Monks” Leeford. This essay will follow Oliver and Monks and analyse their characters in the light of the literary hero and the literary villain and in doing so see how Dickens use the characters as literary tools to convey his view of a dark, uncaring Victorian society as well as his hopes for a brighter future. Their strong characteristics make way for a fascinating story, a story that do not only tell us about Oliver’s bravery and Monks’ egoism, but one that do also prove that they are characters created by Dickens to show both the Victorian society that he lived in as well as the society that it could become.
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Ehlen, Oliver [Verfasser]. "Venantius-Interpretationen : Rhetorische und generische Transgressionen beim "neuen Orpheus" / Oliver Ehlen." Stuttgart : Franz Steiner Verlag, 2012. http://d-nb.info/1073646637/34.
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Kjellström, Antonia. "Twisting the standard : Non-standard language in literature and translation from English to Swedish." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för språk (SPR), 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-70039.
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Non-standard language, or dialect, often serves a specific purpose in a literary work and it is therefore a challenge for any translator to recreate the non-standard language of the source text into a target language. There are different linguistic tools an author can use in order to convey non-standard language, and the same is true for a translator – who can choose from different strategies when tasked with the challenge of translating dialectal features. This essay studies the challenge of recreating dialectal, non-standard speech in a work of literature and compares four different translations of that same piece of literature into another language. With this purpose in mind, the novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens is analysed using samples of non-standard language which have been applied to indicate a character’s speech as dialectal. The same treatment is given to four different Swedish translations. The method consists of linguistically analysing four text samples from the original novel, to see how non-standard language is represented and which function it serves, and thereafter, comparing the same samples to the four Swedish translations in order to establish whether non-standard features are visible also in the translated novels and which strategies the translators have used in order to achieve this. It is concluded that non-standard language is applied in the source text and is represented on each possible linguistic level, including graphology, morphosyntax, and vocabulary. The main function of the non-standard language found in the source text samples was to place the characters in contrasting social positions. The target texts were found to also use features of non-standard language, but not to the same extent as the language used in the source text. The most common type of marker was, in all five of the texts, lexical items. It was also concluded that the most frequently used translation strategy used in the target texts was the use of various informal, colloquial features.
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Huang, Bo-Yuan. "China on the periphery : transitions of Chinese "Orientalism" from Oliver Goldsmith to Thomas De Quincey." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2014. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/63773/.
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This project contains six chapters, and looks carefully at the original generic forms and cultural environment of publication. This first part will include the general introduction to the shaping and the mapping of knowledge of China in the pre-Romantic period. Daniel Defoe’s The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1719), as a widely-read, popular romance, would serve as an important text that provides a peep into contemporary British and China from an economic and materialistic perspective. French texts of Montesquieu’s The Spirit of the Laws (1748) and Voltaire’s An Essay on Universal History, the Manners, and Spirit of Nations (1756) would also be included and carefully examined. Although these two works were not written in English, still both held strong presences in the circle of British intellectuals at that time. And although both works were based on the Jesuits’ accounts, they ended up yielding rather different results, providing almost opposite contemporary opinions about China. In Montesquieu’s idea, China, as an absolute despotic country that produces nothing but economic and social stagnation whereas in Voltaire’s depiction, China is guided and governed by high moral and philosophical standards. Both writers’ works showcase an unsettling debate on how China is and should be portrayed in the mid-eighteenth century. This would provide a special foreground that nurtures the later discussions on China, such as the idea of political economy in Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations (1776) and the general public’s ambivalent sentiments towards China, which would lay a strong foundation for the development of this research project. The second chapter takes on Oliver Goldsmith’s The Citizen of the World (1762) and his other essays and periodical articles to explore how Goldsmith, while echoing back to the aforementioned two writers, takes good advantage of the satirical form of a Chinese philosopher-travellers’ account, not to work as a mechanism of producing sheer alienation and foreignness, but to provide his social observation, in order to assess both domestic and exotic cultures from a parodist’s point of view. Although Goldsmith has constantly been accused of plagiarising European works, and although he did not offer an effective solution to the conflicting nature of Chinese vogue in his contemporary Europe, he was one of the most influential figures in his time who actually dove into the popular cultural phenomenon, suggesting the possible marriage and amiable relationship between the domestic and the foreign cultures with a slight amount of disbelief, concern, and sarcasm. Chapter three deals with Lord Macartney’s Embassy to China between 1792 and 1794, and looks closely at the travel narratives both by embassy members and by Lord Macartney himself. Several visual representations of China would be examined in this chapter, including some of the most well-known works by caricaturists such as James Gillray and George Cruikshank before and after the embassy. William Alexander, the embassy’s draughtsman, also brought home numerous first-hand portrayals of China, allowing the British public to see the non-distorted images of China. Despite the unsuccessful diplomatic journey, the Embassy returned to Britain with some immediate and direct accounts of Chinese society that were not from a Jesuit source, which defined how common English public comprehended and perceived China from then on. Whether Lord Macartney performed the ritual of “kowtow” ignited a heated series of deliberations about China: if it is a country of absolute despotism or of enlightened despotism? And if China has been stagnant in terms of technology, economy, and culture? Would China be able to open up for foreign trades and diplomacy? These debates strongly shaped the subsequent discussions of China in England in the nineteenth century. Chapter four scrutinises several Charles Lamb’s Elia essays (1823, 1833) and his correspondences with Samuel Taylor Coleridge and with Thomas Manning who was a leading Sinologist and later a member of Amherst Embassy. Coleridge’s fragmental masterpiece “Kubla Khan” is also included to illuminate the phenomenon of popular oriental fantasy, while the correspondences from Manning and Coleridge are incorporated to examine Lamb’s major source of creative ideas. Particularly, Lamb’s most celebrated essay “Old China” would serve as a perfect example to further dive into not only the writer’s personal obsessive attachment to chinaware but also the remarkable reflection on how the vogue of chinoiserie and the oriental luxuries helped form the concept of “taste” and gave rise to the new consumer ethics of the middle class in Britain. This would also position the consumption of chinoiserie in the luxury debate in the eighteenth century, and how this phenomenon gradually died away in the nineteenth century. Chapter five approaches Thomas De Quincey’s most famous yet notorious work, Confessions of an English Opium Eater (1822, 1856) and political essays in relation to Anglo-Chinese diplomacy. Influenced by the emergence of racial theories and the trend of switched focus from China to India and the South Sea, De Quincey’s ideas of China reflected the new-found colonist supremacy of Britain, and how the military intervention should be carried out in order to, eventually, disenchant the old charm of China that was thoroughly built up by and within the European imagination. The stagnation in politics, economy and society of China was gradually and then generally accepted in the first half of the nineteenth century, and De Quincey’s proposal that Britain should wage wars against China can also be seen as a violent means for Britain to actively take on the role of global power and colonial country that seeks overseas expansion, as well as a means for China to transform. The last chapter will conclude that “Chinese Orientalism” is not a by-product of “Romantic Orientalism”; rather, “Chinese Orientalism” should be viewed and understood as a series of images of China that have been romanticised by European imagination—whether they are positive or negative—and they peaked during the mid-eighteenth and the mid-nineteenth centuries. “Chinese Orientalism” is, again, not a simplistic idea, but a complex, triangular relationship with politics, commerce, and culture between England and China. This shift in the balance of opinions was accompanied by a change in emphasis and approach in European construct of China, from an Enlightened preoccupation with and admiration of the political, cultural and philosophical supremacy of China, to a Romantic engagement bifurcated between intimate consumers’ attachment to the chinoiserie and oriental luxuries, and then to a racialised “Other” and a stagnant and tiresome country of despotic polity that was in a desperate need for British rationalism and military intervention as a means to revive. With the aim of opening testing and giving great contextual specificity to China within larger discourses and representations of the East, this thesis tracks this process of transformation and the balance of opinions. And it is my hope that this study will in some measure contribute to the heightening of this interest, especially at the time when Europe and China are bound not only culturally but also politically and financially.
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Takai, Yuriko. "Formations of social concern in three novels of Dickens : a critical reading of Oliver Twist, Bleak House, and Little Dorrit." Thesis, University of Essex, 1991. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.277697.
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Wehr, Oliver [Verfasser]. "Die Ilias und Argos : Ein Beitrag zur homerischen Frage / Oliver Wehr." Frankfurt : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2015. http://d-nb.info/1080457585/34.
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Preis, Michael [Verfasser], and Oliver [Akademischer Betreuer] Jahraus. ""Die Freiheit reizte mich" : Dekonstruktionen der Mitteilbarkeit in Schillers Wallenstein / Michael Preis ; Betreuer: Oliver Jahraus." München : Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, 2015. http://d-nb.info/1155407458/34.
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Moon, Hi Kyung. "Fictitious travellers in French and English literature : a summary of imaginary voyages from Cyrano de Bergerac to Oliver Goldsmith (1657-1762)." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.305671.
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Paraforou, Fani [Verfasser], and Oliver [Akademischer Betreuer] Jahraus. "Ekphrasis und Geste : Ansätze zur Dekonstruktion eines komplexen Verhältnisses / Fani Paraforou. Betreuer: Oliver Jahraus." München : Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, 2012. http://d-nb.info/1075456576/34.
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Ilgner, Oliver [Verfasser]. "Biographische, theologische und literaturpsychologische Analysen zur Person und zum Werk J. R. R. Tolkiens / Oliver Ilgner." Aachen : Shaker, 2004. http://d-nb.info/117053175X/34.
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Monagas, Alexander [Verfasser], and Oliver [Akademischer Betreuer] Jahraus. "Die omnimediale Gesellschaft : eine literatur- und medienwissenschaftliche Betrachtung intermedialer Kommunikation in medialen Systemen / Alexander Monagas. Betreuer: Oliver Jahraus." München : Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, 2013. http://d-nb.info/1031380701/34.
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Stamoulis, Derek Clarence. "In pursuit of virtue : the moral education of readers in eighteenth-century fiction /." Title page, contents and preface only, 1991. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09ARM/09arms783.pdf.
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Geisler, Oliver [Verfasser], Walter [Akademischer Betreuer] Schmitz, and Klaus [Akademischer Betreuer] Schumacher. "Areale der Tat : Das Ereignis der Gewalt und seine Erzählbarkeit / Oliver Geisler. Gutachter: Walter Schmitz ; Klaus Schumacher. Betreuer: Walter Schmitz." Dresden : Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2012. http://d-nb.info/1068148160/34.
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Rigo, De Alonso Viviana. "Mujeres y escritura de vida: la autobiografia femenina en la Argentina del siglo XX: Marìa Rosa Oliver, Victoria Ocampo y Alicia Jurado." Thesis, McGill University, 2011. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=103587.
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At the beginning of the 20th century, in Argentina, there was a marked increase in the number of women who dedicated themselves to writing professionally. This has resulted in women gradually acquiring a voice of their own and a distinct place in the national literary discourse. By the mid-1960s there was a noticeable tendency among several of these female authors to write and publish their autobiographies, thus contributing to the creation and recreation of alternative public self images, which were usually in marked contrast to the parameters tacitly established for female writing by the Argentine literary, cultural, and social elite. The purpose of this doctoral thesis is, therefore, to investigate the strategies of self-representation that these female Argentine authors, Victoria Ocampo, María Rosa Oliver, and Alicia Jurado, used in their texts to create their particular self image and expose their private life. Through their life narratives such authors began to break into the national corpus of autobiography and occupy a space hitherto rarely taken up by female writers. First, an overview of the consistent under-evaluation of both autobiography and female writing in literary studies in general, and in Argentina in particular, will be conducted. Then attention will centre on the autobiographical writings of Argentine female authors borne between the final decade of the nineteenth and the early years of the twentieth centuries. Finally, particular attention will be paid to the historic-cultural, literary, and feminist context of the times to which these autobiographies refer as well as the actual moment in which the texts were written and published.<br>On peut constater dès le début du XXe siècle en Argentine, une remarquable augmentation dans le nombre de femmes dédiées à l'écriture professionnelle qui leur permît de gagner graduellement une voix et un espace propres, dans la littérature nationale. Vers la moitié des années 60, on peut voir parmi beaucoup de ces femmes écrivaines une forte tendance à élaborer et publier leurs autobiographies, en contribuant de cette façon à créer et recréer une image féminine alternative et propre, normalement en dissonance avec les paramètres établis tacitement par le milieu social, culturel et littéraire argentin. Le but de cette dissertation doctorale est donc d'examiner les stratégies d'autoreprésentation que les écrivaines féminines argentines Victoria Ocampo, María Rosa Oliver et Alicia Jurado utilisent dans leurs textes à fin d'exposer leurs vies privées devant le lecteur et d'occuper avec leurs narratives de vie, l'espace rarement peuplé dans la littérature nationale de l'autobiographie écrite par des femmes argentines. À cette fin, ma recherche abordera l'analyse de la situation de dévaluation dans laquelle l'autobiographie et l'écriture féminines se sont trouvées pendant longtemps parmi la littérature et les études littéraires, en général, et parmi la littérature argentine, en particulier. Mon étude se focalisera sur la production autobiographique des écrivaines féminines argentines nées entre la dernière décennie du XIXe siècle et le début du XXe et dirigera une attention particulière au contexte du discours historique, culturel, littéraire et féministe de l'époque où ces narratives de vie s'insèrent, ainsi qu'au moment particulier dans lequel les textes sont produits et publiés.
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Nestler, Nils [Verfasser], Oliver [Gutachter] Ehlen, and Meinolf [Gutachter] Vielberg. "Ciceros Aratea : ein vergleichender Kommentar : mit den Ergänzungen von Hugo Grotius / Nils Nestler ; Gutachter: Oliver Ehlen, Meinolf Vielberg." Jena : Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, 2021. http://d-nb.info/1241183619/34.
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Christensen, Laird Evan. "Spirit astir in the world : sacred poetry in the age of ecology /." view abstract or download file of text, 1999. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p9947971.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 1999.<br>Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 356-371). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users. Address: http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p9947971.
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Swifte, Yasmin. "Charles Dickens and the role of legal institutions in moral and social reform Oliver Twist, Bleak House, and Our mutual friend /." Connect to full text, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/409.
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Thesis (M.A.)--University of Sydney, 2000.<br>Title from title screen (viewed Apr. 21, 2008). Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts to the Dept. of English, Faculty of Arts. Degree awarded 2000; thesis submitted 1999. Includes bibliography. Also available in print form.
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Winkler, Oliver [Verfasser]. "Konfliktaushandlung zwischen Ehepartnern in deutsch- und schwedischsprachigen Dramen : eine historisch-kontrastive linguistische Dialoganalyse / Oliver Winkler. Åbo Akademi University, Universität Bern (Double-Degree)." Turku : Oliver Winkler c/o Åbo Akademi University, Deutsche Sprache und Literatur, 2013. http://d-nb.info/1032964545/34.
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Pratt, David Camak. ""Too many olives in my martini" W.C. Fields and Charles Bukowski as postmodern carnival kings /." Bowling Green, Ohio : Bowling Green State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=bgsu1212601300.
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Swifte, Yasmine Gai. "Charles Dickens and the Role of Legal Institutions in Social and Moral Reform: Oliver Twist, Bleak House, and Our Mutual Friend." University of Sydney, English, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/409.
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The legal system of Victorian England is integral to Charles Dickens' novels and to their moral intent. Dickens was acutely conscious of the way in which the Victorian novel operated as a form of moral art. As a novelist he is concerned about the victims of his society and the way in which their lots can be improved. He therefore chooses to construct representative victims of legal institutions such as the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834 and the Court of Chancery in his novels to highlight flaws in his world and the changes that might be made to improve social conditions. This thesis will examine the way in which Dickens' fictional enquiry into the social world his characters stand to inherit is focused on the legal system and its institutions, most particularly, the law of succession. By discussing three novels from different periods of his writing career, Oliver Twist (1837), Bleak House (1853) and Our Mutual Friend (1862-1865), I will suggest how his engineering of moral outcomes shows his development as a writer. The law of succession and related legal institutions such as the Court of Chancery, dealing with wills and inheritance, recurs in Dickens' novels, providing the novelist with social, moral and legal identities for his characters. These identities, as unveiled during the texts, propel the characters and plot development in particular directions in response to the novels' moral intent. The role of inheritance in Victorian society largely provides Dickens with a means to explore the adequacies of existing legal institutions, such as the means by which to prove and execute wills and the operation of the Court of Chancery. The role of inheritance also allows Dickens to examine the social condition of those who are deprived of an inheritance or who are unable to enforce their legal rights. In this respect Dickens concentrates on the appalling conditions of institutions such as workhouses and poorhouses in Victorian society and on resultant criminal activity and prostitution in the community as the disinherited struggle to survive. Dickens' study of crime in particular sheds invaluable light on the prevailing moral standards of, and difficulties with, his society. Dickens acknowledges his pedagogical role as an author, providing synopses of his lessons in the prefaces to his books and forewarning his audience of the literary devices (such as grotesquerie) that are necessary to communicate them effectively. This thesis will examine the way in which Dickens' engineering of moral outcomes through the convenient use of the law of succession becomes increasingly sophisticated as he develops as a writer. The stock plot device of the impoverished orphan child, a representative victim of such a Victorian legal institution as the Poor Laws who is morally saved when elevated into gentility by a secret inheritance, sustains the plot of Oliver Twist. The simplistic and somewhat improbable fortunes of Oliver, however, give way to the more probable moral and legal outcomes of characters such as Jo and Richard Carstone in Bleak House. In Bleak House Carstone, who is certainly a more interesting central protagonist than Esther Summerson in terms of Dickens' examination of legal institutions and their effect on moral and social outcomes in the novel, makes a ruinous attempt to manipulate the legal system and gain control over his fortune by joining the suit of Jarndyce v Jarndyce. In Our Mutual Friend, however, a complex and successful manipulation of the legal system is achieved by Harmon/Handford/Rokesmith, an adult and extremely resourceful character who, in conjunction with other characters such as Bella Wilfer and Mr Boffin, is testament to the inseparability of individual and legal identities as far as moral and social outcomes are concerned. Throughout the novels it can be seen that the abilities of Oliver Twist, Richard Carstone and John Rokesmith to manipulate the law of succession correlate directly to stages of Dickens' maturity as a writer and his increasing confidence about layering texts and developing more complex and sophisticated structures in his novels. Dickens' focus on the role of inheritance, however, entails the development of perspectives on the legal system in entirety. Oliver Twist as a novel drawing upon the traditions of sensation, and turning on events such as 'legacies, birthrights, thefts and deeds of violence', focuses intensely on the criminal justice system and establishes Dickens' famous attraction to repulsion and use of grotesquerie and popular entertainment. Oliver Twist also develops analogies between law and drama, establishing the foundation from which Dickens can employ legal metaphors to great effect in his quest for reforms of the legal system and society at large in Bleak House and Our Mutual Friend. Oliver Twist further establishes the milieu of a stratified society in which finances govern social behaviour and in which the class system is reflected in the legal system through the denial of access to justice to those who are unable to afford it, or suffer gender inequality. Bleak House builds upon the problems outlined in Oliver Twist. It explores the criminal system, particularly the defeminisation of the law and access to justice issues, including the problem of delay in litigation. Specific legal institutions such as the jury system and, most notably, the civil branch of the Victorian legal system with a particular focus on the equitable procedures in the Court of Chancery are examined. Jo is a transmutation of Oliver as representative victim of the Poor Laws, and his fate as such appears more probable. Richard Carstone is, however, the central character in the novel in terms of his construction as the representative victim of the civil system and of the law of succession. In Our Mutual Friend Dickens refines his use of the law of succession and other legal institutions to propel characters into directions suited to his own agendas. The entire plot is constructed from the premise of the execution of a will arising out of the death of John Harmon whose murder is a crime that has never, in fact, been committed. The ramifications of the execution of this will and subsequent codicils are extremely interesting. The novel further examines problems of access to justice and gender inequality under the prevailing legal system, particularly through Bella Wilfer. As part of the development of Dickens' use of the legal system there is a perceptible development of his powers of characterisation. Richard Carstone is a more substantial and believable character than Oliver; John Harmon offers the opportunity for Dickens to experiment with a chameleon identity. This aspect of Dickens' development, however, has received substantial attention already, particularly by Arnold Kettle, Barbara Hardy, Monroe Engel and Grahame Smith. There has been, to the best of my knowledge, little work done on his use of the law of succession, and it is here that I wish to concentrate my argument. Much of Dickens' interest in the law appears to stem from his early career as a legal clerk in Lincoln's Inn and Doctors' Commons. His first job, as a writing clerk in the office of Ellis and Blackmore, a small set of chambers in Holborn Court, involved duties such as copying documents, administering the registration of wills and running errands to other legal offices and law courts. Public offices with which Dickens came into contact in the course of this job were the Alienation Office, the Sixpenny Receivers Office, the Prothonotaries Office, the Clerk of the Escheats, the Dispensation Office, the Affidavit Office, the Filazer's, Exigenter's and Clerk of the Outlawry's Office, the Hanaper Office and the Six-Clerk's office . This employment gave Dickens an exposure to a wide range of jurisdictions and legal precedents. Through this contact with a variety of legal practices, Dickens experienced a broad range of litigation which enabled him to develop opinions on the contemporary operation of the law and its efficacy in the administration of justice. Such experience almost certainly sowed the seeds for much of the critique of the legal system found in his novels. In 1829 when he joined Doctors Commons, Dickens was exposed to ecclesiastical and naval jurisdictions including a Consistory Court, A Court of Arches, the Prerogative Court, the Delegates Court and the Admiralty Court. In this role Dickens was employed by a firm of proctors to take notes on evidence and judgments. This job as a shorthand reporter granted Dickens the opportunity to observe at close range members of the legal profession such as clerks, proctors, secretaries and Doctors. Probably as much through a process of osmosis as anything else, Dickens gained an understanding of the mechanics of basic legal procedures through this type of employment. In order to work as a court reporter, Dickens was required to use shorthand, a method of taking notes that perhaps allowed Dickens to develop the skill to think and write quickly. It was probably at this early stage in his career that the duality of law and literature began to come together for Dickens, developing at a later stage into his volumes of legal fiction. The anonymity of the law writer's existence, as captured later in Dickens' description of Nemo the law-writer in Bleak House, who either lived or did not live by law-writing according to Krook, also may have prompted Dickens to begin writing original works with legal themes.
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Kröger, Oliver [Verfasser], Gerrit [Gutachter] Dimmendaal, Helma [Gutachter] Pasch, and Anne [Gutachter] Storch. "Personenreferenz und Textorganisation in Erzählungen des mosambikanischen Ngoni / Oliver Kröger ; Gutachter: Gerrit Dimmendaal, Helma Pasch, Anne Storch." Köln : Universitäts- und Stadtbibliothek Köln, 2016. http://d-nb.info/1117134857/34.
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Kröger, Oliver [Verfasser], Gerrit Gutachter] Dimmendaal, Helma [Gutachter] Pasch, and Anne [Gutachter] [Storch. "Personenreferenz und Textorganisation in Erzählungen des mosambikanischen Ngoni / Oliver Kröger ; Gutachter: Gerrit Dimmendaal, Helma Pasch, Anne Storch." Köln : Universitäts- und Stadtbibliothek Köln, 2016. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-69683.
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Redeker, Carolin [Verfasser], Hans-Christoph [Gutachter] Lauer, and Oliver [Gutachter] Seitz. "Anatomischer und mechanischer Vergleich von Rinderrippen und menschlichem Unterkiefer anhand von in vitro Versuchen und Literatur / Carolin Redeker ; Gutachter: Hans-Christoph Lauer, Oliver Seitz." Frankfurt am Main : Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg, 2018. http://d-nb.info/116407721X/34.
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Vodermair, Ricarda Julia [Verfasser], and Oliver [Akademischer Betreuer] Jahraus. "„Erkenne dich selbst? Erschaffe dich selbst!“ – Selfie, Selbstinszenierung, Social Media : Modifikation der Darstellungsform und Inhalte, Ästhetik der medialen Struktur und Selbstdiskurs im Kontext von Autobiographie und Virtualität im 21. Jahrhundert / Ricarda Julia Vodermair ; Betreuer: Oliver Jahraus." München : Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, 2020. http://d-nb.info/1220631868/34.
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Desbiens-Brassard, Alexandre. ""They're Coming!" Invasion and Manichaeism in Post-World-War-Two Literature in the United States and Quebec by Oliver Lange, Orson Scott Card, Mary Jane Engh, Paul Chamberland, Hubert Aquin and Claude Jasmin." Mémoire, Université de Sherbrooke, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/11143/6877.
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Abstract : This thesis develops an ideological critique of selected works by Oliver Lange, Orson Scott Card, Mary Jane Engh, Paul Chamberland, Hubert Aquin, and Claude Jasmin in order to uncover how they use the politico-literary discourse of the paranoid style and its Manichean binary of Us versus Them within the contexts of the United States during the Cold War (and its on-going repercussions into the early 1970’s) and Québec during the Révolution tranquille (Quiet Revolution). The consequent ideologemes manifest narratives describing the fight of an oppressed group (Us) against a demonized hegemonic enemy (Them.) This comparative literature project includes political and historical analyses in order to situate the works in the socio-historical contexts of their production, and since the ideologies of a period may be imbedded (knowingly or not) by an author in a text. The United States and Québec were extremely different culturally, as well as politically, during the decades in question and the issues their populations had to face were often quite dissimilar. Yet it is precisely the interrogation of their dissimilarities that is central to my project of demonstrating, through the selected texts, how two different societies narrativise key predominant ideological anxieties and struggles using the same rhetoric and similar tropes of the paranoid syle and its Manichean ideologemes.<br>Résumé : Ce mémoire réalise une critique idéologique de textes littéraires produits par différents auteurs : Oliver Lange, Orson Scott Card, Mary Jane Engh, Paul Chamberland, Hubert Aquin et Claude Jasmin. Cette critique a pour but d'étudier comment ces textes utilisent le discours politico-littéraire du paranoid style (style paranoïaque) et le manichéanisme ( Us versus Them ou Eux ou Nous) qui lui est associé à l'intérieur du contexte sociohistorique des États-Unis au plus fort de la Guerre froide (et durant sa période plus chaude des années 1970) et du Québec au plus fort de la Révolution tranquille. Les idéologèmes qui en résultent façonnent des histoires décrivant le combat d'un groupe opprimé (Nous) contre un ennemi hégémonique et démonisé (Eux) Ce projet de littérature comparée fait appel à des analyses politiques et historiques pour situer les textes analysés dans leur contexte sociohistorique de production respectifs puisque les idéologies d'une époque peuvent être insérées (consciemment ou non) par un auteur dans un texte. Le Québec et les États-Unis étaient des sociétés extrêmement différentes culturellement et politiquement durant ces décennies et les problèmes auxquels elles devaient faire face étaient différents également. C'est l'exploration de ces différences qui est centrale à ma démonstration, à travers les textes sélectionnés, du processus par lequel deux sociétés différentes opposées à deux ennemis différents mettent en scène leurs principaux combats et anxiétés idéologiques en utilisant la même rhétorique et les même conventions reliées au style paranoïaque et à son Manichéanisme.
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van, der Velde Adrian T. "Allies to Enemies: Popular Xenophobia During the Seventeenth Century Anglo-Dutch Wars." Wright State University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1464439960.
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